Trying to get away from the blog for a while, but I've got to direct everyone to this post by The Political Teen. As always, he's got the video... In this case of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin insisting that New Orleans should and will be "chocolate" (read: black.) Of course saying such a thing is okay, partly because he's a Democrat, and partly because he's any race but white.

Think for a moment if a white mayor of some predominently white city said that, only using the adjective vanilla or something.... especially if he were a Republican. You know it would go as far as demands that the White House distance itself and make a public statment condeming the comments, etc. And don't accuse me of blowing my hypothetical situation out of proportion, you know it happens everytime any Christian or Republican makes an politically incorrect comment.

Anyway, someone should tell Nagin that he'll have some competition from the reigning "chocolate city", Hershey, PA. I actually went on the lame little tour of the Hershey's Chocolate World on a drive through PA one time years ago.

Anyway, who wants to bet the media totally ignores this and doesn't excoriate him the way they might if the candy simile were on the other.... uh.... sweet tooth? Whatever, you know what I'm saying.

UPDATE: As I was typing this, I quickly jumped over to Drudge who had a link to this AP story.

Excerpt:

"Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroyed and put stress on this country," Nagin, who is black, said as he and other city leaders marked Martin Luther King Day.

"Surely he doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But surely he is upset at black America also. We're not taking care of ourselves."
Nagin also promised that New Orleans will be a "chocolate" city again. Many of the city's black neighborhoods were heavily damaged by Katrina.

"It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans _ the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans," the mayor said. "This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans."

As I was saying... Does anyone expect the media to come down on him, or even question him at all about this? It wasn't but a couple weeks ago that Pat Robertson was being condemned by, what seemed like, everyone on the planet. The White House, right to left bloggers, elite media, Israelis.... Everyone.

Please explain to me why Nagin's comments aren't the same if not worse than what Robertson said. In fact, Robertson didn't say "surely" this was "God" the way Nagin is. He basically said cautioned any Israeli PM, based on scripture (or at least his view of it), not to divide God's land, but barely even went as far as suggesting the possibility that Sharon's illness was linked to him doing that. Watch the video for yourself of what Robertson said. Remember how Bush had to publically distance himself and how it made world headlines for about a week? The Washington Post called Roberston and Iranian President Ahmadinejad a "duo", etc. Let's see what the press says about Nagin.

And by the way, who is this joker to be commenting about Iraq and "false pretenses"? Perhaps he should have his nose in business where it belongs... Maybe trying to figure out why he didn't use his own evacuation plan to use school buses to get people out of the city when thousands were readily available. For anyone who hasn't seen the pictures, a quick search turned up this Free Republic thread that has a number of them... not sure about the "famous" one we've all seen though.

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